Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)Beautiful. I had no idea the sun would still be that large out at Mars.
Good observation!
Just shows how big our star really is.
Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
As of June 2012, the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, is the ellipse marked on this image. The ellipse is about 12 miles long and 4 miles wide (20 kilometers by 7 kilometers). The site is near the northern flank of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater on Mars. This oblique view of Mount Sharp is derived from a combination of elevation and imaging data from three Mars orbiters. The view is looking toward the southeast.
I wonder if the Sun looks larger on Mars’ horizon than it does when it’s not on the horizon, due to atmospheric distortion — similar to what we see on Earth when the Moon or Sun is on the horizon?